The Mont-Blanc Project: First Phase Successfully Finished
Momme Allalen, David Brayford, Daniele Tafani, Volker Weinberg (LRZ),, Bernd Mohr, Dirk Br\"ommel, Rene Halver, Jan Meinke, Sandipan Mohanty (JSC)

TL;DR
The Mont-Blanc project aimed to develop energy-efficient Exascale computing systems using embedded technology, successfully building a prototype, designing next-generation systems, and porting applications during its first phase.
Contribution
This paper reports on the first phase of the Mont-Blanc project, showcasing the development of an energy-efficient HPC prototype and application porting efforts.
Findings
Successful development of an energy-efficient HPC prototype
Design of a next-generation Exascale system
Porting of representative Exascale applications
Abstract
Running from October 2011 to June 2015, the aim of the European project Mont-Blanc has been to develop an approach to Exascale computing based on embedded power-efficient technology. The main goals of the project were to i) build an HPC prototype using currently available energy-efficient embedded technology, ii) design a Next Generation system to overcome the limitations of the built prototype and iii) port a set of representative Exascale applications to the system. This article summarises the contributions from the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany, to the Mont-Blanc project.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques · Distributed systems and fault tolerance · Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
